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I've looked through past posts, but didn't see much that had to do with my situation.
I have a 14 mo dcg who has been with me since mid September. It's been 4 months and naps are exactly how they were in the beginning... horrible. She's draining every once of energy I have.
Our routine is this:
9-10 morning nap
12:30ish - 3 afternoon nap
I change all of their diapers, clean them up from lunch, put them in their beds, turn on the music, turn out lights, shut blinds & curtains.
Dcg screams the second input her in the pnp. She doesn't cry; she screams as though she's being harmed. Honestly, it's the most annoying sound I've ever heard. I'm sure my teeth are just about flat from grinding them. This scream is the 'it's an emergency. I'm dying. Help me now' scream... but she's perfectly fine. I've tried patting her back or shhhing, but that just fuels it more. She wakes up at the tiniest sound. One day I snuck into the kitchen (she's in a room alone down a small hallway from the kitchen) to grab a receipt. The crinkling of the receipt woke her up! And the second she wakes up it's back to screaming. She screams for maybe 5-10 minutes then falls asleep. 30-45 minutes later it's screaming again.
Dcm showed up Monday morning and told me that dcg had trouble sleeping Sunday night and would probably be tired early. Ok, that's fine.
But last week she said they are cutting out her morning nap at home. She said it's too difficult to make sure she's home to PUT DCG IN HER SWING TO NAP. Are you kidding me? Dcg is about the size of a 9 mo, but she's 14 mo and sleeps in a swing at home!!! My face was like
she said "well, it's not on. We just put her in the swing because she likes to feel enclosed". I told her that I would never tell her to change the way they parent, but that the sleeping in the swing is obviously causing issues here and that after 4 months she should definitely have adapted by now.
Idk what to do. She said they'd stop. I think maybe they did and now dcg is caught in a circle of being so tired she can't nap.
Any advice? Sorry that was so long... I've been holding it in for 4 months
I have a 14 mo dcg who has been with me since mid September. It's been 4 months and naps are exactly how they were in the beginning... horrible. She's draining every once of energy I have.
Our routine is this:
9-10 morning nap
12:30ish - 3 afternoon nap
I change all of their diapers, clean them up from lunch, put them in their beds, turn on the music, turn out lights, shut blinds & curtains.
Dcg screams the second input her in the pnp. She doesn't cry; she screams as though she's being harmed. Honestly, it's the most annoying sound I've ever heard. I'm sure my teeth are just about flat from grinding them. This scream is the 'it's an emergency. I'm dying. Help me now' scream... but she's perfectly fine. I've tried patting her back or shhhing, but that just fuels it more. She wakes up at the tiniest sound. One day I snuck into the kitchen (she's in a room alone down a small hallway from the kitchen) to grab a receipt. The crinkling of the receipt woke her up! And the second she wakes up it's back to screaming. She screams for maybe 5-10 minutes then falls asleep. 30-45 minutes later it's screaming again.
Dcm showed up Monday morning and told me that dcg had trouble sleeping Sunday night and would probably be tired early. Ok, that's fine.
But last week she said they are cutting out her morning nap at home. She said it's too difficult to make sure she's home to PUT DCG IN HER SWING TO NAP. Are you kidding me? Dcg is about the size of a 9 mo, but she's 14 mo and sleeps in a swing at home!!! My face was like
she said "well, it's not on. We just put her in the swing because she likes to feel enclosed". I told her that I would never tell her to change the way they parent, but that the sleeping in the swing is obviously causing issues here and that after 4 months she should definitely have adapted by now.Idk what to do. She said they'd stop. I think maybe they did and now dcg is caught in a circle of being so tired she can't nap.
Any advice? Sorry that was so long... I've been holding it in for 4 months
makes group care nearly impossible....
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